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Les Miserables, book 3 "Marius"
Jan. 11th, 2013 03:37 pmOh yaaaaay skygiants has posted on "Marius" here and now I can blabber on about this book, which I loved so much! (I seem to have loved much the same parts as skygiants, but not totally identical!)
"Marius" was a really fun book for me to read. I don't know if it's me or Hugo or both, but I was cheering Hugo on in his digressions -- this was the first book of Les Mis where I didn't find any of it a slog at all. I suspect it's because he's not trying to Make a Point about either Anyone Being Super-Good or The Ways In Which Being a Woman in Nineteenth-Century France Sucks; he's much more playful in this section. But also maybe because it was about college kids and how awkward boys in love are and cheerful street urchins, which are always fun!
I just want to talk on and on about this book! ( Including terrible mining metaphors, awesome Friends of the Puns, my utter love for Marius and his painful overly-idealistic rants, Marius's handkerchief fetish, and Thenardier action thrillers )
"Marius" was a really fun book for me to read. I don't know if it's me or Hugo or both, but I was cheering Hugo on in his digressions -- this was the first book of Les Mis where I didn't find any of it a slog at all. I suspect it's because he's not trying to Make a Point about either Anyone Being Super-Good or The Ways In Which Being a Woman in Nineteenth-Century France Sucks; he's much more playful in this section. But also maybe because it was about college kids and how awkward boys in love are and cheerful street urchins, which are always fun!
I just want to talk on and on about this book! ( Including terrible mining metaphors, awesome Friends of the Puns, my utter love for Marius and his painful overly-idealistic rants, Marius's handkerchief fetish, and Thenardier action thrillers )
